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581.
Deventer MS. 91, f. 114.
LB. App. 138.
[The date is unquestionable.
From BEATUS RHENANUS.
Basle.
10 May 1517.
For many of the topics mentioned cf. Ep. 575.]
BEATVS RHENANVS ERASMO ROTERODA, S. P.
Cym accepissem Ioannem Wilerium, ciuem Basiliensem in Anglia
natum, ex patre tamen Germano, Hantwerpiam profecturum, non
potui committere vt meis ad te vacuus litteris discederet. Nam quod
proximis litteris ambigue ad te perscripsi, nunc certius aliquanto
eloquar. Imprimitur Chrisosto(m)us minutis illis formulis, idque 5
gemino praelo. Praeter(e)a De Homine Galeotti Narniensis opuscu¬
lum duobus itidem praelis cuditur. Aluari Solennis Compilatio (sic
videtur) in spongiam incubuit. Expectantur indies magni tuarum
lucubrationum fasces; qui vt primum adlati fuerint, omnibus post¬
habitis nihil nisi Erasmicum Frobenniana cudet officina. Mirantur te to
Berum vt scriberet.
Monui
Doluimus omnes iam tercio
Si illis insanire 15
erga tuos labores se gratum fore.
1. Wilerium] Mentioned in BRE.
124,5 as lending money to Beatus in
1519; cf. also BRE. 143.
6. Galeotti] Galeozzo Marzio (c. 1427¬
1497), of Narni in Umbria, was a pupil
of Guarino at Ferrara 1447-50. Till
1460 he taught classics and medicine
at Padua; and then made use of his
acquaintance with Janus Pannonius,
a fellow-pupil under Guarino and now
Bp. of Fiinfkirchen, to seek his fortune
in Hungary. Till 1473 he enjoyed the
patronage of Matthias Corvinus and
various prelates; but on returning to
Italy was imprisoned in 1477-8 on
a charge of heresy in his De vulgo
incognitis, written in 1476-7. His later
writings—De dictis et factis Matthiae
Coruimi, c. 1485, first published in 1563
at Vienna; De doctrina promiscua, 1489,
dedicated to Lorenzo dei Medici ; De ex¬
cellentibus, 1492, dedicated to Charles vare
—indicate the directions in which he
sought for patronage. He died in
Bohemia, : See E. Abel in Ungarische
Revue, 1881, pp. 29-42; and Voigt.
In his De Homine, written c. 1471
(Venice, Jenson, c. 1471: Copinger
2621) and dedicated to John Vitez,
Abp. of Gran, the various parts of the
body are enumerated and Latin syno¬
nyms given. Froben’s edition of May
1517 was perhaps reprinted from a
Turin edition of 1517 (Panzer).
8. in spongiam] Of. Suet. Aug. 85.
12. Rectorem] Capito was elected
Rector 1 May 1517 for the ensuing
half-year.
14. male feriatos] Cf, Hor. C. 4.6. 14.
15. nouis] Bücking dates the first
edition of the second part early in
1517: but attempts no precision.
17. litteris] Ep. 575.
19. Augustini] Evidently there was
a proposal to revise John Amorbach’s
edition of 1506; but nothing came of
it at this time, with either Froben or
Koberger. The Froben firm published
a complete edition of Augustine, re¬
vised by Erasmus, in 1528-9 in ro vols.